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    Silkie Hen or Roo?

    Hello everyone, I am hoping someone can help me with sexing one of my silkies. I definitely know the black one is a rooster but the other one i have no clue about. i have had this one for a few months and just started introducing it to the flock slowly. I noticed my rooster was trying to mate...
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    my polish hen cant see. What can i do?

    Hello everyone i just picked up my first polish hen from the NE Poultry congress show on saturday. she is a beautiful bird and used to be a show bird but the reason she sold her was because there were to many black feathers on top of her crest. I guess they pluck out the black feathers for the...
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    making a flock block treat for the first time.

    Hello everyone i decided today to make my first flock block! i have seen the ones in Tractor supply for over $10.00 which to me is a lot of money to spend on something that my birds might not even like. With all this bad weather we are getting here in upstate NY my birds have been cooped up...
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    Cooling and turning in a mini advance?

    Hello everyone! i just received my mini advance in the mail and have it set up now. But i am having trouble with if I should set the cooling option on or if i do what to set it at? Also for turning what should i set that at? right now i have no eggs in the incubator but the turning is set at...
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    Getting polish Tolbunt hatching eggs in the spring

    Hello everyone. I have a few questions regarding the breed Polish tolbunts. I won a contest and am having the eggs shipped to me in the spring. This is my first time having eggs shipped to me and also am new to this breed. I see they have a lot of head feathers. I was wondering if there is...
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    Opossum's in my chicken coop

    Hello everyone. I am having an issue with opossum's getting into my coop at night and eating the chicken feed and staying under the heat lamp...this morning i found one in the hay sleeping. They seem very lethargic but i know they can become quite nasty and can eat chickens i keep kicking them...
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    Best incubator to get?

    Hello everyone i am trying to figure out what is the best incubator. I need to get a new one...the one i have now is the little giant still air styrofoam incubator and lets just say it has been very annoying with temperature spikes and when i comes to chicken eggs i get a horrible hatch...
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    My horses. Anyone like or have horses?

    Hello everyone. i just wanted to see if anyone else has any horses on here? i have 2 one is a thoroughbred and the other a solid paint. my solid paint is my my horse she is trained western. and my thoroughbred which is my dads horse is also western i started riding when i was real little...
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    Hello from upstate NY

    hello everyone i am new here to backyard chickens. i currently have many birds they are my favorite pet i have 2 turkeys 5 ducks 3 guineas and many breeds of chickens to many to count here are some pictures of my birds i hope you like them ^_^ one of my roosters my male turkey this is one of...
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